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Nov., 113 H923, l,4l73,933 1D. H. GREEN CORN FILE Filed Jan. 9, 1925 ,my j.' fg;

INVENTOR Day/ @nee/7 ATTORNEY Patented Non.. i3, i923.

iai/atea DAVID H. GREEN', 0F SAN FIRANCXSCO, CALJIFGENIA.

CORN' FREIE.

Application ined January 9, 1923. serial no, 611,559.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that l, DAVID H. GREEN a citizen of the United States, residing at an Francisco, in the county of San Francisco and State of California, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Corn Files, of which the following is a specification.

This invention relates to toilet articles, and in particular to a corn file for reducing eorns or callosities, such as usually occur on the feet and the hands.

It is customary to use a file or a knife on such callosities to remove the horny or outer layers of dead skin therefrom. At present this is best done with a. iile, as a knife is liable to slip and inflict serious wounds, especially if in inexpert hands.

Files and other abrasive articles for this purpose, become dulled and clogged with particles of the dead skin and so lose eflic'ency, and nally fail entirely in the performance of their expected function.

It is the chief object of my invention to produce a corn file of sim le construction and operation, whose abra ing surface can be easily renewed, even by an inexpert user and as often as desired, andthus be maintained at its maximum efficiency for useful service.

I will now desc-ribe the construction of such an article, illustrating the same in the accompanying sheet of in which Figure l is an elevation of the corn le from the broad side.

Figure 2 is an elevation of it from the narrow side and at right-angles to Fig. 1.

Figure 3 is a cross-section taken at an point of the active part, as at the line A- of Fig. 2.

I will describe the article as made with emery cloth as the abrasive, that being a material easily procurable.

Referrin to the drawing and the figures thereof foundation or base of oblong cross-section and rounded at the corners, is formed with a, handle 1 at one end, and with a tongue 2 at the other end.

This base is preferabl drawings,

' of straightlgrained wood, having resi ient propertiesv that tend to pinch when a long kerf is cut therein, such as exhibited by hickory or ash.

rlhe tongue 2 is s lit with the grain of the wood, 1n a lane su stantially arallel to its broader si es, as seen at 3 in igs. 2 and 3, thus dividing it into two strips 4l and 5. rll`he tongue member is tapered from its joinder with the handle member to the free end, which is rounded or otherwise orna mentally configured.

About one of the strips of the tongue member as 4, is wound a piece of emery cloth 6, with any desired number of turns, (three are shown). After makin the desired number of Winds on the str1 4c, the cloth is carried over the edge of strip 5 and across its outer dat surface to the op osite edge and there turned in, and the edp the c-loth inserted into the split 3, as seen at 7, more especially in Fig. 3.

The manner of use of the toilet article on a corn is similar to that of ordinary files, and is too well known to need description. When the abrasive particles on the cloth become dulled, from the breaking of their sharp edges and corners, or become clogged with dead skin, the emery cloth may be slipped ed the base member 2, and recoiled to brin fresh surfaces to the outside, and then sllpped onto the strips of the'tongue member again. The tongue member bein tapered, the emery cloth may be slippe back upon it till it binds on the taper sumciently for practical purposes. The resilience of the wood or other material composing the base, will cause it to bind a inst the portions of cloth in the s lit 3 an thus prevent any unrolling thereo or slipping.

Having thus illustrated and described my invention, what il claim as new and desire to secure by Letters Patent of the United States is the following:

1. A toilet article in the form of a corn tile, composed of a resilient material having a handle at one end and an active member at the other end, said active member bein tapered and of oblong cross-section, and sp it longitudinally in a plane substantially parallel to its broader sides, and an abran sive fabric encircling said active member and. having its edges turned into the said ge oit" split and held therein by the pinching reaction of the said resilient material.

2. A toilet article in the forni of a corn file, composed of a resilient material havin a handle at one end and a tongue at the otiier end, said tongue being tapered and split longitudinally into two strips, and an abrasive fabric wound about one of said strips with a luralit; of turns and carried around the ot 1er strip and having its edge engaged in said split, saidfabric adapted to be unwound from said-first strip and rewound on said second strip, thereby presenting` fresh abrasive surfaces.

In testimony whereof I ax my si nature.

DAVID H. GR EN. 

